The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-14
CURRENT COMMENT.

Democratic victory in New York is tumultuous
and variegated. 1t is especially cheering to the
HooSier statesman because it places Mr.. Cleve-
land right up in the front rank of spolls polltl-
clans, where he belongs.-Philadelphi Inquirer.
THE promotion of the politician must be sec
ondary, and the advancement OF ideas the lead
ing object, if the party continues its hold the
public thought 1t was ideas and principles
that the people put to the front when they
elected Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and it is to
the people that the Republican party must
again appeal.-ChicagO Inter Ocean.
''THE noble Roman" set the fashion, and now
every Democrat in Ohio Is jumping up and
cracking his heels and crashing his teeth be-
General Jackson and General Gordon
sung the praises of jeff Davis, and then tried
to elect Mr. Powell that platform. From
this distance it looks as though Governor
Foraker good deal of man. The brig
adiers merely swelled his majority.-Chicago
Mail.
WHILE the United States are the asylum of
the oppressed, they not and will never be,
fit abode for plotterS who would destroy all
law, making anarchy and all its kindred curses
supreme. There are yet others in the land for
whom the scaffold waits, and they will be wise if
they recognize its CHASTITY figure as an ever pres
ent accompaniment of such criminal schemes
their minds are hourly connecting. louisville
Courier Ournal
UNQUEsTIONABLY Governor Forakers prompt
and aggressive action in the battlefiag episode.
and his subsequent i'll treatment at the hands
of Grover Cleveland, have given him prestige
which found expression at the polls on Tuesday.
Circumstances justified his show of aggression
as loyal Governor of loyal State; and he has
won popular regard and strengthened his party
by his conduct 1t is aggressive Republlcanism
that wins.-Minneapolis Tribune.
IT is about an even thing whether the Senate
had better confirm Lamar or not. If he should be
appointed associate justice of the United States
Court. He is lazy enough to do little damage.
possibly less than any other ex-rebel who might
get the place. But it might at some time be de-
sirable to have a positive man on the bench, or
a vacancy might be better than such a man
n 10 hor1 10 fOCC hat hoH How
be done.-Chicage Evening Journal.
lHE bugbear of the George vote is lessened,
but it still exists. Its leader does not seem to
be at all discouraged, and to his followers this
means everything. for were Henry George
thoroughly discounted suddenly removed
from the scene of action, the party which his
enthusiasm has built up would speedily crumble
and become but memory While his spirit and
perseverance continue, the movement, mistaken
though it be, is full of latent possibilities.
ton Journal
THANK God! there is one city of the Republic
where the law is stronger than this band of for
eign thugs, who come proclaiming gospel of
liberty to overSet our laws and cut our threats.
Thank God! for one application of the law to the
evangeistS of assassination which is to the rest
of the criminal company warning of what is in
store for themselves. The Phansgars of for
eign socialism must go. There is room for
them in this land. unless it be under the sur
face ofit-Chicago Times.
THOSE Democratic papers which are so iubi-
liant yer the belief that the presidential contest
of next year has been settled in their favor by
the fact that the Democratic candidate for Sec
rotary of State in New York has about IL 900
plurality, should remember that the Republican
candidate for the same office had over lS 900
plurality in 1883. The result in
more decisive than it is in the other, the only
conclusion that it is safe to draw being that New
York is doubtful State.-Philadelphia Press.
ALL that the public will demand is that
there be no hesitation, unnecessary delay in
the execution of the law and the enforcement of
its penalties. And Anarchists and the friends
of Anarchists should be warned that the present
temper of the community is not which
would tolerate either hesitation or delay. The
next trial of AnarchiStS-if there should ever
unfortunately be another-will not drag its
length through nineteen months. 1t will be q
short shrift for the bomb throwers of the future
in this country.-Chicago News.
WHO ever knew of one-even one-of these
apostles of no law being at the head of any
terprise intended to benefit mankindl They
plant no colonies, they not engaged in CO.
operative enterprise. they cannot point to a sim
gle monument to energy directed by earnest
ness and love of man. No. They only prepare
to destroy what others have builded and they
never attempt to rebuild anything. Their
scheme is to level everything and then gather
up the accommodations of others their right.
OF course this will never be permitted by the
American people, not if, in order to put an end
to it. it be necessary to plant the gallows as
thickly as telegraph poles from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, and keep them in bearing 365 days
in the year. This people will take neither their
POLITICAL social, religious notions from these
foreign apostles of misrule. Philadelphia North